Like many tracks on the former record, “Starik” experiments significantly with song structure, delving even more into progressive rock than the band’s earlier music. The track instantly recalls “Ujubasajuba” with its moody, sinister aura. After years of silence and an exciting record deal, the band released the album’s first single, “Starik,” last fall. While the official reissue was called for, it was also executed in promotion of Kairon IRSE!’s follow-up record, “Ruination.”įrom the start, “Ruination” promised grandeur. ![]() The album’s success, however, drew the attention of local labels, among them Svart Records, which recently reissued “Ujubasajuba” in both CD and vinyl format with all-new cover art. The band self-released “Ujubasajuba” digitally on the online music retail website Bandcamp, an unassuming format unworthy of the album’s magnitude. It was easily one of the year’s best records. Surely inspired by Scandinavia’s impressive metal output, the album’s colossal tracks feature icy, towering riffs richly evocative of the region’s polar winters and powerful drumming that hits like a blizzard. The Finnish shoegaze and noise rock outfit Kairon IRSE! gained significant notoriety in 2014 following the release of their breakthrough album “Ujubasajuba,” amassing fans from around the globe after spending years in the obscurity of the Baltic experimental rock scene. "Juho shared our vision of how the album should sound", comments guitarist Niko Lehdontie, "but he also gave us a much needed outside view ofThey came from nowhere. On Ruination the curiously named quartet heads further, beyond the point of no return, into their own world of sound, where power chords, arpeggios and quirky vocal harmonies flow.Ruination was recorded in the summer of 2016 at Tonehaven Studios producer Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu, Grave Pleasures) at the helm and Tom Brooke recording and mixing. Though often bundled with the shoegazer movement, Kairon IRSE!'s music has since the beginning been a rare bird inside the scene: it rings out with a different tone, and already on the first album the influence of classic progressive rock was evident. ![]() ![]() Whereas the debut album was largely born out of improvisation and jam sessions, Ruination is the fruit of two years of careful composing and arranging work, taking control of the chaos. ![]() The band describe their music as an appreciation of the ideas and overall mentality of experimental pop musicians of the 60s and 70s, combined with a modern approach and original musical vision. Since then the band has performed at various large festivals and meticulously written the new album. Progressive shoegazing? Music of the outer spheres? An irrevocably mentally unstable Gentle Giant and a severely alcoholic Todd Rundgren having a love child which, after being adopted to Russia, finds himself performing a rock opera in the Ural Mountains? It is typical of the human mind to try and classify things, but when confronted with Kairon IRSE!, many are at a loss for words.Behind the moniker Kairon IRSE! there are four inner space travelers from western Finland.ĭebut album Ujubasajuba already knocked the planet off its orbit, even though it was done as a DIY Bandcamp release.ĭespite the lack of a physical release the album found itself on many a best albums of the year -list in 2014.
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